Celebrating the small wins

Getting started is always the hardest part for me. Here are three things you can do to start meaningful engagement in the Portland startup community RIGHT NOW 🫶

I work to be very clear that I am not, in fact, a journalist. I know what journalists do. I know how difficult that work is. And I know full well that my work does not even closely resemble that dedication and effort. buckscountybeacon.com/2026/01/opin...

If you've got a favorite startup accelerator, TIME would like to hear from you time.com/7345503/top-...

Most everyone I know is leaning into an AI first mindset. Me…? I’m just barely confident in which emoji to use ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was reminded recently that I redesigned jason.energy and... I think I just forgot to mention it anywhere? I'm pretty proud of the way this one came out. here's a lil thread of some of the specifics if you're interested ↓

It’s very late. I’m awake. I did not move the furniture. I wrote about wanting to instead. That counts as growth, right? New post: midnight musical chairs… camikaos.com/2026/01/10/m...

Finally some good news

Three easy ways to immediately connect with the Portland startup community

The big story this week wasn't a tech startup story. It was a cannabis startup story. Two cannabis startups, that is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oFs...

This is exactly what we hoped @graze.social would be used for - people standing up and creating feeds to keep their communities as informed as possible in fraught breaking news environments. Grateful to see it being used this way

"For cities, nations and cultures to have a future, they must marshal founder energy, neither conservative nor grievance-based, but truly generative and future-directed, to the shared work of building a world we all want to live in." www.linkedin.com/pulse/essent...

Confused about getting connected to folks in the Portland startup community…? Here are three ways to start getting connected, immediately. siliconflorist.com/2026/01/07/t...

Sometimes the thing you judge hardest is the thing you do on your worst day... like me yesterday. camikaos.com/2026/01/06/s...

If "get outside more" is one of your New Year resolutions, you may want to check out NatureQuant www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyPs...

It isn't your imagination. This is 95% of your LinkedIn feed, right now. An outline, in three parts… 1. Hook: Share a broad but spicy quip about professional behavior 2. Observation: Flesh it out with a generic scenario to build instant agreement…

Happy Epiphany! (Not religious. I just like the word "epiphany.")

Today's that day where the "trying to catch up" grace period starts to wear off. Oh well. It was nice while it lasted 😂

Oooh. This is relevant to my interests, as well #atproto /cc @atproto.com

Emailing people after a long holiday is like that whole trope from Swingers about how long you’re supposed to wait to call somebody after getting their number

I'm a busy lady, full-time developer, 3 kids, major trust issues with social media, and not a ton of bandwidth for learning. This post by @jimray.bsky.team effectively describes why I'm betting my limited free time on #ATProto jimray-bsky.leaflet.pub/3maenxn7kqc2a

I was completely wrong about the Portland startup community. And while I had any number of failures in 2025, it was primarily one incorrect hypothesis about the startup community — and the learnings from that failure — that will inform my activities for 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKSy...

bad: sprinkles cupcakes closed all of their stories with one days notice good: based on the comments, it looks like in 2026 people are extremely aware of private equity

Okay. Most of the way through day 1.

If “build a startup” is on your list of things to do this year, a friendly reminder… 😂

Nothing like waiting until the last minute 😅 Here are the top 10 most popular posts of 2025 from Silicon Florist. (Plus, as an added bonus, the top post has the potential of making you the most interesting person at all of the New Year celebrations, tonight) youtu.be/BVCR9-SL5CQ

This looks like a post about cheese. It’s actually about loss, survival, and everything you don’t consent to giving up. And cheese. 👉https://camikaos.com/2025/12/31/i-give-up/

It's always interesting to see what resonated with folks throughout the year siliconflorist.com/2025/12/30/t...

guys i told linkedin i’m starting a new job so i guess its time to tell y’all i am starting w @morningbrew.bsky.social’s cfo brew vertical in a few weeks! couldn’t be more excited to be part of some awesome corp fin reporting at a time when the vertical is growing 💐 more tk!!!! 💝

Sincerely hope that you're getting a bunch of "re"s in this week

Mega VC rounds are skewing the data about the realities of startup investing today. 2026 will be a hell of a year for early-stage startups to raise money.

"Can vs Should" is always a quandary — but especially when massive technology changes occur. Still, we have to go through building stuff we can build to really get at what we should be building. Like it or not.

There are a lot of things I’ve missed covering on my blog over the past 18 years. But there are also a ton of things I wrote about that never got the more widespread recognition and adulation they truly deserved.

Thanks for hanging out with me in 2025 🙏

Massive congrats to @rude1.blacksky.team the GOAT of the protocol. Very excited for the Blacksky team in '26!

Henry Sakamoto, a prominent leader in Portland’s Japanese American community who helped bring cherry trees to the Tom McCall Waterfront Park downtown, has died at age 98.

Last weekly recap of Oregon startup news for 2025. I promise I won't bother you with recaps of the latest startup news until next year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usl...

Quietly chipping away at stuff

looks like recent model runs and the low's track northward have downgraded the severity of the event, thankfully. www.kptv.com/2025/12/24/t...

PSA: Make sure to charge those devices, Portland. The wind is starting to pick up. #PDX #Portland

Happiest of holidays and the most restful of downtimes to you and yours 🎅

The latest class of the Oregon UAS Accelerator has been announced. And it's a big one. siliconflorist.com/2025/12/23/m...

My "chat style" with ChatGPT, this year. Checks out. No lies detected.

I used to have a little side project called "daily spam affirmations" where I took nicely worded — but clearly bot composed — spam comments on my blog and created a collection of affirmations. Might need to reboot that project.

Slabtown, Northwest, Portland, OR #pdx #murals #streetart

Adding “Ketchup Growth” to my list of potential band names

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Kerns, Portland, OR #pdx #graffiti #streetart